Artangel, I don’t thing my grandchildren like cat food, but I might start them off with some dreamies first to see if they’ve got the taste for it.
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While you’re at it, order a shed from B&Q to stock it all. Or even, move to a bigger house with warehouse facilities!
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all very useful advice but today I’ll just stick to petsathome since I’ll also be able to buy some hay while I’m there to cook that Christmas dinner, which will now mostly consist of Felix for juniors. lol
I was a dyed in the wool gas cooking man d00d, but since we had a new kitchen fitted and Mrs Fox insisted that we had an induction hob, I’ve never looked back…Awesome! and so clean, despite me boiling everything over occasionally.
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I quite agree Swim and have been thinking along those lines for the past year or so. I can see that one of the first problems we might encounter (not just because of Russian interference) is not being able to access money by electronic means. Imagine not being able to use your cards… 
So a good stash of cash will be a must, to buy essentials.
But there is another side to this for me and you Swim…
If I suddenly expire, and considering my recent heart problems - which seem to be getting worse - How difficult is it going to be for Mrs Fox to access my money? So a good stash of cash should keep her happy and eating (paying the bills) until all the financial stuff can be sorted out.
Kitchen fitter said complications with wiring, gas is easier, so we have gas. But nothing complicated about the portable ones, I see. Just plug em in.
If you need to replace your laptop Annie then good for you. But buying stuff in anticipation of problems in the future, and to try and keep the value of your money in assets is a none starter in my opinion. As soon as items are taken out of the shop they will devaluate many times faster than leaving your money in the bank. Furthermore, wasting money on something now that you think you might need in the future, might not be the same as something you later find out that is essential (priorities change with circumstances) and you can no longer afford.
Even keeping your money in a biscuit tin like Swimmy and me, is not going to maintain the value of our pound, but at least having cash to bargain with is lot better than trying to bargain with a useless plastic card when all the systems have gone down.
Which may mean more liquidations
The value of the £ will go down about a third the way things are going. I’d rather spend my third now and keep biscuits in the tin.
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Apart from this being sheer speculation about the devaluation Annie, goods stored in your make shift warehouse will lose a lot more than a third in value especially if Arty is right and we are faced with a glut of items that the manufacturers can’t shift, so will have to reduce prices anyway.
If it’s sheer speculation then there must be mass delusion of financial experts who study these things. Unless the Government does a covid-type bailout for businesses to cushion the blow of the war we are heading for recession. I may as well buy goods while the businesses are still there to produce them. Wheat, fuel, nitrogen, gas are all affected. That’s a fair hit on inputs into our supply chains.
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Yes the struggles in the Ukraine will undoubtedly have an effect on world affairs Annie, but buying goods ‘while the companies are still there’ would only ever be a short term fix, and we must get used to the fact that life for us might never be the same again. We will just have to get used to having to walk everywhere, cooking over an open fire in the garden, and growing our own stuff…We were probably fools to ever give that life up, and ship stuff thousands of miles from the other side of the world.
By the way…What are you going to do with all that nitrogen?.. 
fertiliser?
OGF nitrogen is used for growing our own stuff
Oh Gawd! I know what nitrogen is used for girls…I was being facetious…
Of course! 
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could have used it to make laughing gas to help us deal with your attempted backtracking of ignorace mrfox. lol
Perhaps some members might find it useful to help to lighten up a bit…
How you might feel
Relaxed, giggly, sound distortions and/or dizzy,
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Perhaps time to stock up on some?
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Don’t forget next year’s model: Windows 12.
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